About

Renee Fajardo is a mezzo-soprano born in Manila, Philippines. She currently studies with Susan Waters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She was recently awarded the Stonevale Concert Series and the City Lit Institute Prizes in the Musical Odyssey Masterclasses in Greece, after working with soprano Nuccia Focile. Last March, she won first prize at the Courtney Kenny Award held in Kent and was consequently featured in the London Song Festival last December in London.

In Manila, she performed in the choruses of La Boheme (MusicArtes Inc.), L’elisir d’amore (Filfest Cultural Foundation) and Filipino composer Felipe de Leon’s Noli me Tangere (Resorts World Manila). She concertized widely with the VivaVoce Ensemble and was a recurring soloist of the Manila Symphony Orchestra.

In the summer of 2017, she was a company member of British Youth Opera’s anniversary production of Don Giovanni. Later this year, she will be participating in the Toronto Summer Music Festival.
She will be rendering two recitals this year, one in February and another in October.

Renee currently enjoys a scholarship under the Guildhall School Trust and is a grantee of the National Commission of Culture and the Arts of the Philippines.

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16 April 2018

Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road London, SE3 9RQ

Lunchtime RecitalMyramae Meneses, Renee Fajardo, Mark Bautista

Filipino soprano, Myramae Meneses performs a programme of French and English art song and is joined by two fellow Filipino singers, Renée Fajardo, mezzo-soprano and Mark Bautista, tenor in a group of traditional songs and duets from the Philippines.